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==Summary of Lore to the Present==  

     The storyline of [[Parallel]] centers around [[rifts]], which are mysterious and powerful structures that enable travel between separate dimensions in the [[Greater Parallel Multiverse]]. For example, there are two overworlds: [[Otherside]], and [[Parallel Prime]], both of which can be accessed by traveling through rifts. Since the opening of Parallel, the discovery of new rifts constitutes a major story event, where players can explore a new world, meet its [[Non-player characters]], and learn about its details and secrets. There are a handful of rifts scattered throughout the worlds of Parallel, and all it takes to travel to another world is to simply enter the rift.  

   In spring 2020, a few weeks after the server opened to the public, the first known rift over the [[Parallel Prime Spawn Town]] began forming. Players became acquainted with the NPC scientist [[Niall]] as he studied how the rift changed form over time. Mysterious new mobs named [[Wisps]] spawned near the rift as it gained more and more layers. As the summer began, players met an explorer named [[Red]] who crashed onto [[Parallel Prime]] and opened a shop selling custom items. Since the crash affected [[Red]]'s memories severely, it took some weeks before his space ship was found at the [[Crash Site Crater Dungeon]]. In August, the mysterious and terse engineer [[Jess]] came to Parallel, threatening to harness the power of the [[Parallel Prime Spawn Town Rift]] to her own ends. Some weeks later, she eventually did cause the server to shut down for some days as she [[harvested]] the rift, but when the server reopened after a few days players discovered that the rift in [[Parallel Prime Spawn Town]] opened to an entirely new world: [[The Sky Dimension]].